I am considering a hunter 37 cutter. The mast has been cut down by 4 feet to accomodate the bridges in the area. Any thoughts on how this will affect the sailing characteristics of the boat, other than the obvious.
With a displ. of 18000# the H37C is already light on canvas. You will need some help downwind, maybe a genaker? And if you are lazy like me and don't always use the staysail consider a jib to replace the yankee? Guess it depends a lot on how the main was reshaped. Four feet seems like a lot, more than the first reef on my boat. Because of the topping lift it probably wasn't possible to make up the difference with a big roach and battens. You could do that though with $$$ and a solid vang. The boat should remain balanced since the yankee and staysail would also had to have been cut down. Is the boom the original height above the cabin? With less mainsail you could raise it even higher giving more head/dodger/bimini room. You can get nearly eight inches by matching the top bolt holes in the mast to the lower holes in the mounting plate. Hopefully someone on HOW has done this and can give you real life experience. Good luck.
Yea Ed it does seem like a lot so I called the broker and he said he was going to check the numbers and get back to me but he said he thought it was cut down to 48 feet instead of the original 50...so 2 feet.
mast hight according to my owner's manual, that was sent from Hunter when we bought MYST is listed as 45 ft with an overall hight of 50 ft off the water...
Bob, Spec. info I've got says: Mast height from waterlne = 50 ft. On raising the boom, I did just what Ed suggested, i.e., I used the top hole in the mast as the new hole for the bottom plate hole. I then drilled and tapped new holes in the mast for the now higher plate holes. This worked great and didn't seem to affect the rudder balance a bit. With full sails, yankee, staysail
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